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460: 527: 153:, highlighting, among other things, Gaddis' ability to create different "voices" and his use of different dialogue. Ozick referred to the work as "...an unholy landmark of a novel - an extra turret added on to the ample, ingenious, audacious Gothic mansion William Gaddis has slowly been building in American letters." 109:; his neglected and ineffectual wife; and a visitor with a mysterious past who resembles in many ways Gaddis himself. The book is notable mainly for its strict fugue-like nature, as each character pursues his own themes in conversation and in action, often without reference to anything said or done by the others. 36: 622: 511: 578: 632: 324: 123:, Greg Gerke referred to the book as " perfectly with the other three novels as one long scroll of words." Gerke refers to the other Gaddis books 197:"Finally realize you can't leave things better than you found them the best you can do is try not to leave them any worse . . ." (p. 230) 504: 571: 548: 481: 607: 497: 637: 617: 564: 232: 597: 184: 102: 317: 627: 612: 119: 602: 552: 485: 407: 174:. Gass wrote a humorous, though critical, letter to the editor about the mistake, and concluded by asking that the 399: 310: 281: 179: 439: 255: 372: 137: 426: 166: 149: 106: 538: 471: 534: 459: 348: 125: 20: 171: 380: 333: 91: 83: 49: 591: 433: 144: 467: 87: 59: 526: 207: 19:
This article is about the William Gaddis novel. For the architectural style, see
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relates the words and occasional actions, in one house, of an ex-soldier,
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of haunted isolation, in a milieu stripped of all pretensions.
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credited the work to another American writer and novelist,
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Carpenter Gothic

William Gaddis
Viking
William Gaddis
Viking
"Gothic" tale
Confederate apologist
pathological liar
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Recognitions
J R
A Frolic of His Own
Cynthia Ozick
The New York Times
The New York Times
William H. Gass
John Hawkes'
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
Annotations to Carpenter's Gothic at williamgaddis.org
""Carpenter's Gothic": William Gaddis's Compositional Self"
"FAKERY AND STONY TRUTHS"
"'CARPENTER'S GOTHIC'"
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William Gaddis
The Recognitions
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Carpenter's Gothic

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